Submit post and redirect

dila125

Currently our ecommerce sites checkout form posts data directly to the thidy party payment page. However, we want to add a script between our checkout page and their payment page to store data in our database.

I looked at using curl to send post data to the payment page, but this did not offer the ability to redirect the user to the payment page.

I've looked into fsockopen and have made a connection to the page and tranmitted post data, but again have not been able to redirect the user to the payment page.

Is what I am trying to do possible? What is best option for getting this working? I thought this would be simple but I've spend hours searching and had no luck.

herve

One solution might be to let the user go directly to the payment page, as he do now,
(so no interaction with you, no redirection needed) but before that, sending you the data.

For instance, using a onSubmit() event of a HTML Form, you can send
the data to your own script with a simple call in a javascript function, return "true",
so the HTML form is process normally.

<script>
function myfct()
{
     // here a Javascript code to send you the data

// may be with some window.open() call with a window size of (0,0) pixels for instance

}
</script>

<form action="payment_page.php" method="post">

<input type="submit" value="Go to payment page" onSubmit="javascript:myfct();return true;">
</form>

dila125

Is there anyway I can avoid javascript? To keep things clean I'd rather it was all done in php.

Weedpacket

I don't see why having the script communicate with a third-party site should prevent you from redirecting the user to another page afterwards. Some more detail about what exactly you're doing (example code would be nice) might be useful.

mobe

why dont you use HTML to redirect?


// do php stuff then

$redirect = 'http://www.payment.com/page.php?price=20';

echo '<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL='.$redirect.'"></head></html>';

herve

May be because his script receive POSTed data and need to send them back to the original script
on the payment page with the same method ?

By artificially populating a similar <form> tag with the received data and then a redirect
call in HTML, it may be possible ?

( The "?price=20" suppose that the original script will now receive data with the GET method which may work or not)